Prisoner No. 2
CCAC #: | 0081 |
Artwork title: | Prisoner No. 2 |
Artist(s): |
Dumile Feni |
Year made: | Unknown |
Artwork type: | Paper |
Medium: | Pen and ink on paper |
Dimensions (mm): | 450 x 350 |
Framed dimensions (in mm): | 750 x 6450 x 35 |
Source: | Donated by Albie Sachs |
Year acquired: | 2004 |
Installation type: | Movable artwork |
Location area: | On public display |
Signage: | A theme of Feni's work is often the universal agony of man, rendered specific through his own experience of oppression in South Africa. His figures are frozen in a kind of agonised despair. The artist commented on the intent behind exhibiting his work, saying it was "to keep the conscience of the world alive to the issues at stake’. |
![CCAC 436324](/uploads/files/2017/01/CCAC_436324.jpeg)
Photographer: Gisèle Wulfsohn
Photo copyright: CCT
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NOTE: The process of photographing artworks in the CCAC is underway - we are currently working to improve image quality and display on the CMS but have included internal reference photos for identification purposes in the interim.